Very strict office hours. 9-5 but expected to stay way past 5 regularly as a salaried employee. Even when completeing
Tasks from home. Micromanaged even though every deadline was met with plenty of time.
Used to have great employee purchase plan for consumer products. Tvs. Camcorders
Vacuums, microwaves vcr/DVD and air conditioners. Now you can get tea pots and air purifiers.

Sharp is a great multinational company that is making great advances for the benefit of its clients. Products are top-class and you are able to sell a large amount of products over several lines. Benefits are good. The national training program with David Buck is superb. Unfortunately, working at a local branch has been more than frustrating.

Cons

This company lost its GSA schedule several years ago and ever since then it has been losing government clients left and right. For about 2 years there has been a significant push to gain traction in commercial accounts. That pressure to replace the accounts has fallen on the sales team. For the past few years they have not delivered. Now things are heating up for the new team members (95% sales staff less than 1 year). Here's how it stands currently:
8am monday meetings! Absolutely no culture or employee events. No investment in sales reps morale or available resources (locally), data is on absolute lock down, We are constantly under scrutiny and micromanged based on the results of poor upper management decisions and records keeping from years prior. In meetings twice a week for months on end where we have been plastered with negativity and inconsistent messages. We have made poor month end decisions to try and boost numbers. Sales reps are constantly left in the dark during installations. Sales reps don't have access to critical selling info such as service history or buy/lease info. All the while we have a 35k base in an area where homes are on the low end 450k plus and cost of living is among the highest rates in the country. Less than 10% or our quota comes from recurring leases or inbound leads, leaving us scrambling to "make it work".

I have been working at Sharp Electronics (US) full-time for more than 8 years

Pros

Great work life balance, fantastic benefits, good people who have worked here for a long time. Very family friendly environment, where management understands that people have lives outside the office. Management is very encouraging of ideas from all employees at all levels. Good place to work.

Cons

Product offering has suffered a bit since exiting TV market in US
Building in Mahwah could be cleaned up some

Company Updates

This Monday, Sharp volunteers were excited to serve lunch to the children at Camp Lots-of-Fun during a field trip to the Pony Power Therapies farm in Mahwah, NJ. Camp Lots-of-Fun is a program run by Family Promise of Bergen County that aims to give underprivileged children a real summer camp experience. #SharpCares

—20 days ago

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We are so thankful for the generosity of those Sharp employees who donated hundreds of supplies, including pencils, erasers, index cards, binders, lunch boxes, water bottles and backpacks, to The Bergen Volunteer Center to help children in need going back to school next month. #SharpCares